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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is criminal or unethical about politicians pitching their book(s)?

Writing a book and selling it is more like part of the Job Description as an elected official and probably a candidate for elected office too..

Just yesterday Gov Hogan helped Gov Christie sell his book to the fine people of Maryland.

https://twitter.com/LarryHogan/status/1108730022112706563

LESSON LEARNED: If you want to sell lots of Books, consider becoming an elected official.

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The issue is that board members of a non profit institution were clearly lining each other's pockets. UMMS agreed, for god knows what reason, to buy 100,000 copies of Pugh's self published book for $500,000. There are a few issues with this. 1) what was the point of this? The books were not solicited by any programs or the schools, 2) 100,000 is a huge volume of books. Very, very few actually professionally published authors come anywhere close to that kind of run, 3) and last and most damning, where are the books? Baltimore Sun is saying at least 50,000 copies can't be traced. Implication is that they were never published.

This is quite different from Chris Christie's book. Or Hillary Clinton's books. [/quote]

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